A hour’s wage for a cup of coffee
Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent
“The minimum wage back home was $7.25, and here, that’s a coffee.” That’s Jillian McGeehin, a small-town student now attending the University of Chicago. Today’s story by Kelly Field looks at why relatively few rural students go to top colleges – and what can be done about it.
Elite colleges have widened America’s cultural rifts. Kelly’s story considers the idea that, in reaching out to rural America, maybe they can be a part of the solution, too.
